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Rogue Scholar 05 wrote:<quoted text>Well, why was the last time the Catholic Church killed a gay guy?Oh, you do know Thomas Paine was active in the French revolution and he saw no problem with cutting the heads of those evil rich YOUple. Nice guy Thomas was. And a flaming hypocrite.From Wiki: He wrote the Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics.<quoted text>Actually that was a Red Herring as I knew you, or Jacques, would NEVER answer the FIRST sentence!So Poopo, can you answer my first sentence?Oh, this is for everyone else, Thomas Paine wrote Rights of Man in 1791 and the Reign of Terror, as Poppo says, did not start until the FOLLOWING year.Yes, he was arrested by the French, imprisoned in Paris, then released in 1794.. No, the French did not execute him!Now, how about attempting to answer my FIRST sentence!

Why don't you try this on for size with reference to your first sentence, Rogue?

It's time the Pope got down on his knees and apologised for the Catholic persecution of lesbians and gay men.

The Vatican last week offered a mealy-mouthed, half-baked apology to Jewish people for the role of "some" Catholics during the Nazi era. It pointedly refused to condemn the failure of leading clerics, including Pope Pius XII, to speak out against Nazism. Nor was there any acknowledgement that the Catholic Church backed the Jew-murdering regime in Croatia, or that after the war Church officials in Rome helped Nazi war criminals escape to South America. In short, the Vatican's so-called apology white-washed Catholic collusion with fascism.

If the Pope cannot give an unequivocal apology for Church anti-semitism, the likelihood of an apology for homophobia is less than zero. Unrepentant and heartless as ever, the Vatican shows not a shred of remorse for the Church's past and present persecution of lesbians and gay men.

In medieval times, "abominable sodomites" were burnt at the stake on the orders of Papal Inquisitors. As recently as the early nineteenth century, homosexuals were still being strung up on gallows all over Britain - with the blessing of the Catholic Church. This persecution isn't over yet. The Vatican is still crucifying queers.

In 1992, the Vatican officially rejected the concept of lesbian and gay "human rights", asserting that there is "no right" to homosexuality. It added that the civil liberties of homosexuals can be "legitimately limited". While condemning "unjust" discrimination, the Catholic leadership declared that some forms of anti-gay discrimination are "not unjust" and may even be "obligatory".

Denouncing homosexuality as an "aberrant deviation", four years ago the Pope condemned proposals by the European Parliament to remove discrimination as an "attack on the family". Simultaneously, the Catholic leader in England, Cardinal Basil Hume, refused to support an equal age of consent, later justifying his stance with the claim that the Church cannot endorse human rights for "acts which she teaches are morally wrong".

In 1996, the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore, explicitly urged Catholics to vote against political candidates who back equal rights for lesbians and gay men, describing homosexual equality as a "deviant trend".

When will we get an Papal apology for Catholic homophobia? Probably never. If the Vatican won't say sorry, perhaps Cardinal Hume will? Over to you Basil.

<quoted text>A red herring!!!! Do you not realise how everyone here, why, even your birther ilk, are laughing at you? You're a joke, and yes, funny, even. You proved you know zilch about Thomas Paine and the French AND Amereican revolution.

<quoted text>And in how many of those incident was the embassy over-run and the ambassador assassinated?Let's see, the last American ambassador that was assassinated was when ..... Jimmy Carter was president! Hmmmm.

<quoted text>Can you expound upon your comment about the NRA being thuggish. Now, compared to the 6,700 Occupiers who have been arrested between 2011 and 2012, how many NRA members have been arrested in the past 100 years?I think you need to look up the definition of "thug"!thug/TH&#601;g/NounA violent person, esp. a criminal.A member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India, suppressed by the British in the 1830s.Yep, sounds like the NRA to me!!!

Do the occupyers> have valid reasons for "occupying"? YESDoesd the NRA have even ONE valid reason for occupyiny anything^ NO

Thug. Good definition. But does anyone have to do anythng directly to be labelled a thug? I think not. Does the promotion of firearms for every living American,(no permit or training required), firearms that have killed some many innocent victims, from Columbine to Houston and so many before that, not constitute a form of thuggery? Hitler, I believe, never killed anyone personally, but does that exempt him from being called a thug and murderer?

<quoted text>Do the occupyers> have valid reasons for "occupying"? YESDoesd the NRA have even ONE valid reason for occupyiny anything^ NOThug. Good definition. But does anyone have to do anythng directly to be labelled a thug? I think not. Does the promotion of firearms for every living American,(no permit or training required), firearms that have killed some many innocent victims, from Columbine to Houston and so many before that, not constitute a form of thuggery? Hitler, I believe, never killed anyone personally, but does that exempt him from being called a thug and murderer?

Grand Birther wrote: <quoted text>Howdy, birfoon.Here's the latest update on being the losingest losers in the history of losing:Constitution:198 :: Birthers:0Please keep tolling your pretend clock for whatever reason you've dreamt up, and we'll keep on making fun of you.

<quoted text>So you're saying most people in the world no longer believe in their religion? That's a whole bunch of people who have recently lost their faith, no? Perhaps you should tell the Christians, Jews and Islamists of this late breaking news! You don't know what you're talking about. Big surprise!

Do you take great pride in your abject ignorance? Please compare church attendance between the 60s and today. Same thing for Jews, ask any rabbi about synagogue attendance today. As for the Moslems, give 'em time, they started late, they/ll catch up in a couple hundred years.

Some day you'll understand that the more one is educated, the less one believes in these religious fairy tales designed to scare and enslave poor believers. If there is a god, believe me, he's staying as far as he possibly can from organised religion.

What a brilliant move by the "Zero" to give Egypt a few of our F-16s! Nothing like helping out a friend in need, huh Zero? I'm sure your pals, the Muslim Brotherhood, are very grateful. Impeach this boneheaded fool.

<quoted text>Howdy, Big Ben Birfoon.Are you doing the final countdown to the ultimate dissolution of the Republican Party? Watching their very public self destruction is pretty hilarious.

I said a long time ago that the "Z" would single-handedly destroy the Dem party. I stand by that. He's on eggshells now but doesn't have the common sense to know it and neither do you. The biggest names in this administration are corrupt. They belong in jail.

<quoted text>You're a fool. North Africa was in the news yesterday. And the only reason you've been mouthing off about the golfers is because they're rich! If they weren't you wouldn't mention them. And you accuse others of being hate-filled? What a joke. You're the most hateful person on this forum. I should study up on Mali? Why? If it's an AQ launching zone then I say wipe it out. Too bad for your brothers in arms! Tic Toc, Tic Toc, Tic Toc!

First off, Mali is situated in West Africa, in the Sahel region, not North Africa. So much for your ignorance. You don't even know where Mali is.

Mali is NOT an AQ lauching zone, has never been. AQ took over parts of the north and south of the country and the Malian govt, which is not AQ, hates AQ, has asked for our help in repulsing AQ. You want to wipe them out? And I'M hateful? Yet you want to wipe out friends asking for our help, wipe out innocent men,women and children? Do you know what hate is? And don't you think it is advantageous for us in the west to ensure Mali does NOT become an AQ staging area? Better fight it there than here, no? Like WWII.

Yes, you need to study before you open your huge cavern-mouth which you probably could not fill with both feet.

I don't know why I bother. I'm more and more convinced that there is no cure for ignorance.

<quoted text>I said a long time ago that the "Z" would single-handedly destroy the Dem party. I stand by that. He's on eggshells now but doesn't have the common sense to know it and neither do you. The biggest names in this administration are corrupt. They belong in jail.

<quoted text>Do you take great pride in your abject ignorance? Please compare church attendance between the 60s and today. Same thing for Jews, ask any rabbi about synagogue attendance today. As for the Moslems, give 'em time, they started late, they/ll catch up in a couple hundred years.Some day you'll understand that the more one is educated, the less one believes in these religious fairy tales designed to scare and enslave poor believers. If there is a god, believe me, he's staying as far as he possibly can from organised religion.

This coming from a dropout! LMAO! You'll have to excuse me for not taking you seriously.

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